community and social services worker

at  Prima Enterprises Ltd

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding

• Interview inmates to assess adjustment problems
• Interview offenders to prepare pre-sentence reports
• Prepare reports or case histories
• Supervise support staff
• Administrative and office activities
• Appraise clients’ needs or eligibility for specific services
• Assess offenders’ prospects for successful reintegration into the community
• Develop specialized rehabilitation programs
• Perform administrative tasks
• Plan rehabilitation programs with offenders, establishing rules of conduct, goals and objectives
• Prepare classification reports recommending type of incarceration and types of interventions for rehabilitation
• Conduct social research
• Implement life skills workshops
• Refer offenders to community and social services programs
• Liaise with the inmates’ families and contacts in the community
• Supervise terms of probation orders
• Advise and counsel inmates regarding their problems
• Assess client’s relevant skill strengths and development needs
• Interview probationer and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress
• Conduct follow-up assessments
• Evaluate offenders’ progress
• Recommend actions when probation or parole is violated
• Develop, co-ordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
• Provide suicide and crisis intervention
• Resolve conflict situations
• Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
• Supervise children’s visits with parents to ensure their safety
• Assist offenders in pre-release and release planning
• Implement substance abuse treatment programs
• Implement behaviour management programs
• Conduct individual and group counselling sessions
• Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
• Develop service intervention logic models and outcome measures
• Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
• Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
• Screen, recruit and train volunteers and support staff
• Supervise office and volunteer staff